Summary
Lebanon's uprising has unquestionably been led by the youth and strictly opposed to the sectarian logic of the Civil War generation.
In a demonstration organized by mothers, hundreds of local residents marched between both areas, which lie across an intersection that once divided Christian east and Muslim west Beirut, in rejection of the clashes between area residents the night before.
The clashes came after supporters of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement stepped up violence and intimidation against peaceful protesters across Lebanon, with mobs of men attacking demonstrators in Beirut, Baalbeck and Tyre since Sunday.
Men and women threw rice at the protesters from balconies, as people hugged each other.
Jawwous had been one of the hundreds of men who filled the streets the night before, wielding batons and waiting for the worst.
He said that Sunday's clashes had made it clear that the issue wasn't Shiite-Christian.
Rima Majed, a professor of sociology at the American University of Beirut, said politicians had long pushed rhetoric of sectarian coexistence to plaster over deep class divides in the country. She warned protesters against falling into the same rhetoric at the expense of focusing on the vast class divides between working people and the ruling class.
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